Mark Weaver wrote: > > Good morning list, > > I am sorely vexed by something and i am hoping that someone would endulge and engage >me in some discussion about the matter. the matter is this; > > Everytime I've attempted to load Mandrake >= 8.0 on my home system i can't make a >boot floppy cause it can't "see" the floppy drive, X won't run - at all, and >well...the system just isn't very usable like that. O, and i forgot to mention that >when it does manage to start the system after install, in console mode of course >because it usually comes up with a kernel panic error - something about not being >able to find the "/" (root) partition its not very usefull to me in console mode >only. > > Here's brief list of the hardware that you would find in my case. > > motherboard: unknown > CPU chip: AMDK6 233Mhz > SDRAM: 160MB > Audio card: Ensonic chipset > Video card: generic Trident 9660 > HDD's (two) Maxtor DiamondMax drives > hda: 12.5GB 7200rpm > hdc: 3.5GB 7200rpm > CDROM/CD-RW: Sony > Monitor: Phillips T107 Flatscreen > > In the past i've successfully installed Mandrake 8.0 >= on many other system much >older than my own. a few P1's here and there that are small machines by comparison. >even one P1-133 with TWO Western Digital drives in it. That one is presently being >used as an FTP/MySQL/Apache/SMTP server. > > what in the world could there be about my machine that Mandrake just doesn't like? >At present i'm running Mandrake 7.2. It's a Mandrake only machine and the filesystem >is ReiserFS, although i don't think that has any bearing at all on the problem i've >outlined here. > > please, any and all suggestions/flames welcome and appreciated. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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